Carnegie denied : communities rejecting Carnegie Library construction grants, 1898-1925 / edited by Robert Sidney Martin.

Title & Author:

Carnegie denied : communities rejecting Carnegie Library construction grants, 1898-1925 / edited by Robert Sidney Martin.

Publication:

Westport, Ct. : Greenwood Press, 1993.

Description:

xiii, 188 pages ; 25 cm.

Series:

Beta Phi Mu monograph, 1041-2751 ; no. 3

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The founding of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh / Rosemary Ruhig DuMont -- Aborted library projects in Pennsylvania : community reactions to library offers in Carnegie's native state / Pamela Spence Richards -- The Carnegie question and the public library movement in progressive era New York / Frederick J. Stielow and James Corsaro -- Women's club culture and the failure of library development in Illinois, Michigan, and Ohio / Daniel F. Ring -- No palace for the people : Carnegie rejections in Indiana / John Mark Tucker -- Mistaken pride, unseasonable rush : rejected Carnegie grants in Missouri, Iowa and Nebraska / Robert Sidney Martin [and others] -- Poverty of mind and lack of municipal spirit : rejection of Carnegie Public Library building grants by seven southern communities / Donald G. Davis, Jr. and Ronald C. Stone, Jr.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

0313286094 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780313286094 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919.
Carnegie Corporation of New York History.
Carnegie Corporation of New York Histoire.
Carnegie Corporation of New York.
Public libraries United States History 19th century.
Public libraries United States History 20th century.
Public libraries United States Finance History 19th century.
Public libraries United States Finance History 20th century.
Bibliothèques publiques États-Unis Histoire.
Bibliothèques publiques États-Unis Finances Histoire.
Bibliothèques publiques États-Unis Histoire 19e siècle.
Bibliothèques publiques États-Unis Histoire 20e siècle.
Public libraries.
Public libraries Finance.
United States.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Martin, Robert Sidney.
Norman D. Stevens Collection of Library Architecture
Beta Phi Mu monograph ; no. 3.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 180433
Call No.: ID Z731.C287; ID:98-B827
Status: Available

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